Winner of the 1990 Best Book Award from the New England Council on
Latin American Studies
This study of Bolivia uses Cochabamba as a laboratory to examine
the long-term transformation of native Andean society into a
vibrant Quechua-Spanish-mestizo region of haciendas and
smallholdings, towns and villages, peasant markets and migratory
networks caught in the web of Spanish imperial politics and
economics. Combining economic, social, and ethnohistory, Brooke
Larson shows how the contradictions of class and colonialism
eventually gave rise to new peasant, artisan, and laboring groups
that challenged the evolving structures of colonial domination.
Originally published in 1988, this expanded edition includes a new
final chapter that explores the book's implications for
understanding the formation of a distinctive peasant political
culture in the Cochabamba valleys over the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries.
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